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A pomegranate is a round fruit with a thick skin. Inside it is packed with lots of small juicy red seeds, each in its own shiny coat. Those seeds are the part you eat; the pale bitter stuff around them you pull away. The juice stains.
A pomegranate石榴 is a round fruit with a thick reddish skin是一種圓形的果實，外皮厚厚的、帶點紅色 Inside it is packed with lots of small juicy red seeds裡面塞滿了一顆顆多汁的紅色小籽 each in its own shiny coat每一顆都包著自己亮亮的外殼 Those seeds are the part you eat這些籽才是你要吃的部分 the pale bitter stuff around them you pull away周圍那些淡色、苦苦的東西要拔掉 The juice stains它的汁液會染色
The name is old. It came through French from words that meant something like “seeded apple”: pome is an old word for a fruit like an apple, and the other half means “with many seeds.” French later used the same fruit name, grenade, for the weapon that scatters, because of the way the seeds sit packed inside. That link is real, not a folk story.
The name is old這個名字很古老 It came through French from words that meant something like "seeded apple"它是經由法文傳過來的，原本的意思接近「有籽的蘋果」 pome is an old word for a fruit like an applepome是古字，指像蘋果一樣的水果 and the other half means "with many seeds"另一半的意思是「有很多籽」 French later used the same fruit name, grenade, for the weapon that scatters後來法文用同一個水果的名字grenade來稱呼那種會四處炸開碎片的武器 because of the way the seeds sit packed inside就是因為籽緊緊塞在裡面的樣子很像 That link is real, not a folk story這個關聯是真的，不是民間故事
In English the word is just the fruit (and the tree). It is a long word, and often trip in the middle.
In English在英文裡 the word is just the fruit這個字就只是指這種水果 (and the tree)（和它的樹） It is a long word這是一個很長的字 and learners often trip in the middle學習者常常會在中間卡住唸錯
組成From older French pome grenate / pomme grenade, “seeded apple”: pome (apple, fruit) + a piece meaning full of seeds (Latin grānātum). Modern French grenade is the same fruit name.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pomegranatenoun/ˈpɒmɪ(ˌ)ɡɹænɪt/
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The fruit of the Punica granatum, about the size of an orange with a thick, hard, reddish skin enclosing many seeds, each with an edible pink or red pulp tasting both sweet and tart.
- Here the blue fig with luſcious juice o'erflows, / With deeper red the full pomegranate glows, / The branch here bends beneath the weighty pear, / And verdant olives flouriſh round the year.
- In the walls of the cells, elevated on seven steps of Parian marble, various statutes stood in niches, and those walls were ornamented with the pomegranate consecrated to Isis.
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The shrub or small tree that bears the fruit.
- I finish'd this day with a walke in the greate garden of the Thuilleries, which is rarely contrived for privacy, shade, or company, by groves, plantations of tall trees, especialy that in yᵉ middle, being of elmes, another of mulberys. There is a labyrinth of cypresse, noble hedges of pomegranates, fountaines, fishponds, and an aviary.
- On her fair cheek’s unfading hue, / The young pomegranate’s blossoms strew / Their bloom in blushes ever new— […]
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A dark red or orange-red colour, like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit.
- Sally at last appeared, all in a flutter of ribbons and scarfs, whose bright, high colors assorted well with the ultramarine blue of her dress, and the vivid pomegranate hue of her cheeks.
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derogatoryobsoleteA person of British descent, especially one who has (recently) immigrated to Australia; a pom, a pommy.
pomegranateadj/ˈpɒmɪ(ˌ)ɡɹænɪt/
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Of a colour like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit; dark red or orange-red.
- Many people would think Miss Wilcox, standing there in her blue merino dress and pomegranate ribbon, a very agreeable woman.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。